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when the world is cold, make it your business to build fires (she/her)

[madeline @_maddie46]

I’ve decided to choose me and I’m never going back

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

If your version of Christianity wants to put the Ten Commandments in schools but take free lunch out of them, you are worshipping something other than Jesus.

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Let’s check in on the mainstream media’s latest coverage of Gaza…

[The REAL Suburban Mom @ItsMrsPlugg]

Remember that.

[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

[َ @gir1genius]

snoopy image of the day / cr: @limeIike

[Daily Snoopy @DailySnoopys]

free palestine!

[Salamāsina (she/her) @salamasinamusic]

How can I make this more clear?

There is no war.

Palestine has no army.

Hamas wants to give back all the hostages.

Israel wants to murder every single Palestinian, half of which are children, almost 2 million ppl.

What's so hard to understand about that?

It's a genocide.

[Mary @Oye662012]

This is so sick and I'm shaking. I haven't tweeted my own tweets for a while because I'm honestly so lost, melancholic, unstable and disorientated.

What words can I write to appeal to people who don't understand how wrong this is? What more words can I give you that have more weighting than the videos and images we have seen?

What words can I give to people who have seen humans snipered to death for trying to get food? For trying to go to their loved ones in their final moments?

What words can I give to those not perturbed by videos of people screaming with every fiber of their being during operations without anaesthesia?

What words can I give to those untouched by decomposed babies that a mother laboured for and carried for 9 months in a discarded hospital?

What words can I give those whose heart hasn't stopped beating when children gave a press conference first in English and then Arabic begging for their lives and to live?

What words can I give to Someone who has watched a child drinking dirty water and sneered that it's 'Pallywood'?
What words can I give to people who see little babies by the tens and hundreds, inanimate like dolls, glass lifeless skin in white body bags, hopes and dreams died with them?

And now the final request. Evacuate out of Rafah or evacuate out of existence and these people still say "But .....but ...but Hamas" "Human shields"

I have no words for you, you are perched like crows baying for blood.

I don't know...I don't know how to write detailed instructions and inform you of how to become a decent human being with a heart.

[Blk & Missing FDN @BAM_FI]

Windsor, MI: 36 y/o Sahra Bulle was last seen on May 26th around 7:30pm wearing a tan-colored shirt, black pants & carrying a bag. Sahra had recently left an abusive relationship for safety. #HelpUsFindUs #SahraBulle

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

The movie theater is and always has been a sacred democratic space for all and this new initiative by @AMCTheatres would essentially penalize people for lower income and reward for higher income.

[GL @gldivittorio]

“Don’t ask friends for help moving as an adult” “don’t ask friends to do a potluck as an adult” you can literally ask me to hold your hand at the dentist and I will do it

[Jess Magdefrau @JessMagdefrau]

From a Southwest Pilot;

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

If you’re upset about Brittney Griner protesting our National Anthem, wait until I tell you about the time a bunch of rabid trumpers attacked our Capitol and beat police officers with flagpoles flying the American flag.

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

“Real marriage is between a man and a woman. Other couples will never share that kind of love.”

Hmm, I just watched Cherelle Griner fight for 294 days until her wife was freed.

[e taylor @erinisaway]

family planning? you mean making sure you don’t have a pisces?

[Liam @liamsevenaugust]

queen elizabeth is currently not listening to anything

[Paddington @paddingtonbear]

Thank you Ma’am, for everything.